Personal History

• Photographer
  Carole Glauber
• Prize
  Gold in Book / People
• Socials
• Website
  http://caroleglauber.com

"Personal History" examines the lives of my two sons, Ben and Sam—a span covering 30 years. I used a 1950’s Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera, which I tried by chance. I fell in love with the square negative that replaced the rectangle I had known. The imperfections in the imagery reflect the inevitable flaws in our lives: the soft colors are about love and affection, and the constant square creates firm, fixed boundaries, suggesting a steady, uniform quality that we all need in our lives. At centerstage are my sons who we can watch mature from an early age to becoming young men.

• Biography
  I am one of few photographers who is also a published photo-historian, a combination that influences the photographs I make. While traveling, or at home, I strive to capture cultures, people, and landscapes to express my experiences during the day or night. I use different kinds of cameras from digital to film to create and record my imagery, often moving from the literal to the impressionistic, while still maintaining the reality of what I saw. "Personal History", photographs of my sons made with a 1950’s Brownie Hawkeye Camera, is due out in November 2020, published by Daylight Books.
• Awards
  My photographs have been exhibited in over 70 group exhibitions including PH21 Gallery in Budapest, ValidFoto in Barcelona, Festival Pil’Ours in France, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Blue Sky Gallery, ASmith Gallery, RayKo Photo Center, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival, the Curated Fridge, the Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette Center, and PhotoPlace Gallery, amongst others in the United States. I have received awards from the Mobile Photography Awards, PHmuseum Mobile Photography, the International Photography Awards, the Tokyo International Foto Awards, Pollux Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, the Soho Photo Gallery International Krappy Kamera Competition and the Lightbox Photo Gallery. I am the recipient of the Peter E. Palmquist Photographic History Research Fellowship, a Winterthur Museum Fellowship, an Oregon Humanities Research Fellowship and grants from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Regional Arts and Culture Council, and Northwest Womens History Project.